Gunter v. Geary
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the superior court of the city of San Francisco. The facts of the case are fully stated in the subjoined opinions.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Bennett, J.
The plaintiffs, claiming to be the owners of a certain lot, in San Francisco, over which the tide ebbed and flowed, had driven piles over a portion of it, upon which they had built a small house. The defendants, supposing that the lot in question had been appropriated as a public slip, and that the piles and house were an obstruction to the free use thereof by the public, went on the lot and by force turned the plaintiffs out of possession and tore down their house. The action was brought to recover damages for such trespass.
On the 24th day of July, 1850, the city of…
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